Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28


musician, has been managed all these years
By ''General' Bethuue and his son John
who have had o source Of considerable wealth
n him. Not much Of this has benefited Tom,
however. What he earns hereafter Will be
put into the hands Of his guardian for his
own benefit. He begins n concert season
next month at Chickerlng hall, New York.
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Rev. Myron w. Reed, OF Denver. Col, has
been prominently mentioned in relation to
the vacant pulpit Of Henry Ward Beecher
In Brooklyn. He Is an active man OF about
fifty, deep thin ker and fOrcible talker.
lie has preached In indianapolis, where he
had charge Of the same church that Beecher
presided over, in Milwaukee and in Denver.
He Is a progressive man In religtos, political
and social matters.
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Visitors to the national capital who expect
to take broad view OF the city and Its sur
roundings from the w ashington monument,
are grievousiy disappointed. The door OF
the monument has been clio sed since the 9th
of May last. This is the fault Of Chairman
Samuel j. Randall, Of the house committee
on appropriations in the last congress, who
used his influence to prevent congress from
making the necessary appropriation for oper-
atng the elevator and the electric lights,
which had been put into the shaft under the
authority of con gress the year before. The
monument is finished; the elevator Is In
place. and so is the plant OF the electric
light: but there Is no money to run the en-
gines of the dynamos nor to pay the neces.
sary watchmen. Our congress always shows
great ability In the way of saving at the
c,,in ful OF from
the bunghole.
A good many years ago when an Omaha
militia company went out on three
months scout on the plains the bottle-scarred
warriors failed to find single hostile Sioux
whose scalp they could take with propriety.
So they turned in to get their trophies from
their own camp, and gallan tly cut the ears
off two or three Pawnee buc ks who accom-
panied the militia as guides. These ears
were brought back to Omaha as proof of the
daring and bravery of our volunteer prOtec-
tors, and although the Pawnee ears were not
large enough to cover them with glory, they
served their purpose, for time at least, until
it leaked out that they had never Orname nted
the head of Sioux brave.
The Colorado militia are evidently taking
their pattern from the renowned Omaha
scouts OF "a, and we shall not be surprised If
their trophies prove to be nothing more than
the ears of some inoffensive Indians who
happen to be on the trail of the militia.
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One Rev. MIR. Pentcost, Of New York, has
made himself somewhat motor ious recently
by dream he related at an anti-poverty pic
mic in the metropolis. A part Of it was as
follows: Il knew 1t was morning because
all the people were going to work-nicely
dressed, happy looking people-and the
stores were just opening at that hour. And
! then l looked for Jacob Sharp's cars, and
saw cars rolling along run by electricity, and
nobody paid any fares. The policeman said
the road belonged TO the people and was free
Elevated roads had gone. but there were un.
dergrouhd roads, run by electricity, too
and nobody paid any fares. Public build
ings were magnificent; private dwellings
modest, but comfortable There were n,
tenements. Poverty, l was told, had gone
out of the world years ago. New York
Jersey City, Brooklyn, even Hoboken, wer'
all one, with one mayor and 1O,0o0,OOO O
people, who worked from 9 a. m. till 4 p. m.
with an hour for lunch. There were grea
theaters and concert gardens open, but any
body could walk in without paying q cent
l looked for saloons but couldn't find any
But the saloons died out because when tn
tax was taken off liquors 1t made them 81
dirt cheap that no one wanted them. Thor
was no inducement to treat"
Like many dreams this is a tair vision, bu
the element OF reasonableness Is wanting
Who is to maintain people In such ;
holiday sort of existence? What about tn,
farmersP Suppose drOuth or floods, Q
storms or grasshoppers make their toll ust
less, how are they TO go about smiling, wor
q few hours a day, 20 to theaters and a
that? The reverend gentleman should tr
again and see If he can't dream somethin
less Utopian.